中国匍柄霉研究I.

来自山东泰安和安徽合肥匍柄霉属的两个新种分别命名为棉匍柄霉Stemphylium gossypii和莴苣匍柄霉Stemphylium lactucae。模式标本保存于山东农业大学植物病理系标本室(HSAUP)。     

中国匍柄霉研究I.

来自山东泰安和安徽合肥匍柄霉属的两个新种分别命名为棉匍柄霉Stemphylium gossypii和莴苣匍柄霉Stemphylium lactucae。模式标本保存于山东农业大学植物病理系标本室(HSAUP)。     

SYNTHETIC AGROPYRON-ELYMUS HYBRIDS. I. ELYMUS CANADENSIS × AGROPYRON SUBSECUNDUM

Twenty-four seeds were formed in 34 hand-emasculated E. canadensis florets exposed to A. subsecundum pollen. Fifteen of the 24 seeds germinated, and 12 plants were raised to maturity. Each of the 12 plants proved to be a hybrid. The hybrids were morphologically intermediate between the parents, although they favored A. subsecundum in general appearance. The parent plants were meiotically regular and behaved cytologically as strict allotetraploids, 2n = 28. Fourteen bivalents were formed in 12.6% of the hybrid cells interpreted at metaphase I. All other hybrid cells contained various combinations of univalents, bivalents, and multivalents. Mean chromosome associations of 0.22 univalents, 11.70 bivalents, 0.11 trivalente, 0.23 quadrivalents, 0.01 pentavalents, and 0.55 hexavalents were observed in 135 hybrid cells. All hybrid pollen examined was shriveled and non-staining. Five hybrids produced eight seeds, and seven hybrids were completely sterile. The ready cross-compatibility of E. canadensis and A. subsecundum and the relatively good chromosome pairing in their hybrids suggest a much closer relationship between the parent species than is implied by the prevailing taxonomic treatment. Structural rearrangements appear to be responsible for the relatively few differences between E. canadensis and A. subsecundum genomes and for the sterility of the hybrids. Cytological data from this and other investigations indicate a close relationship between many self-fertilizing Agropyron, Elymus, and Sitanion species. It is postulated that this composite of self-fertilizing Agropyron, Elymus, and Sitanion species originated by hybridization between A. spicatum and an unidentified Hordeum species.     

I. THE EXPRESSION OF INSTABILITY IN N. TABACUM × N. PLUMBAGINIFOLIA

Moav , Rom (Hebrew U., Jerusalem), and D. R. Cameron . Genetic instability in Nicotiana hybrids. I. The expression of instability in N. tabacum × N. plumbaginifolia. Amer. Jour. Bot. 47(2): 87—93. 1960.—N. tabacum (n = 24) and N. plumbaginifolia (n=10) are distantly related species both from morphological and cytological points of view. Hybrids of these species with various genome dosages have exhibited somatic variegation when plumbaginifolia dominant characters were superimposed on an appropriate tabacum genetic background. Five loci were studied in this respect: Wh and Tg—for flower coloration; Ws—for chlorophyll production; Kl—for pollen abortion and Bs—for black shank resistance. All 5 were found to be unstable. Backcross progenies of the sesquidiploid hybrid (tbc-tbc-pbg) to tabacum showed a marked increase in intensity of variegation. This has been attributed to the breaking up of the plumbaginifolia genome into individual chromosomes. The evidence indicates that variegation was due to somatic chromosomal aberrations which probably characterized all the plumbaginifolia chromosomes. An hypothesis regarding the heterogeneity of F₁ hybrids of distantly related homozygous species is outlined and the occurrence of instability due to hybridization in other Nicotiana hybrids is discussed.     

Raoul Combes (1883–1964) et la S.I.G.M.A.

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α-l-Fucosidase in human fibroblasts. I. The enzyme activity polymorphism

Low plasma α-l-fucosidase activity is a recessive polymorphic trait observed in 8% of the normal population. The molecular basis of this polymorphism remains unclear and its expression is tissue specific. As the low-activity (variant) phenotype is expressedin vitro in cultured human fibroblasts, this cell type was chosen to study the enzyme activity polymorphism. Fibroblast cell lines derived from individuals with low plasma fucosidase activity (variants) have less than 30% of the fucosidase activity of fibroblast cell lines established from individuals with high plasma fucosidase activity (nonvariants). No qualitative differences in the synthesis, processing, and extracellular release of newly made α-l-fucosidase could be demonstrated among variant and nonvariant cell strains. Cells pulsed with³H-leucine for 10 min produce a 51-kDa protein which is rapidly processed to a 55-kDa intermediate. The latter is converted to a mature 59-kDa intracellular and a 61-kDa extracellular end product, in both variant and nonvariant fibroblast cell lines. Variant and nonvariant fibroblast cell lines also release relatively equal amounts of fucosidase into the extracellular medium. Therefore, differences in processing or extracellular release of fucosidase between variants and nonvariants are not the basic mechanism of this tissue-specific activity polymorphism. We are indebted to the “Belgische Vereniging voor Strijd tegen Mucoviscidose” for financial support.     

Ecole d'été de l'A.C.E.M.I.—Ha?ti

Six Canadian medical students record their experience at a summer school of tropical medicine in Haiti, sponsored by the Canadian Association of Medical Students and Internes. The social, economic and medical background is described, including “Voodoo” practices, language and Haitian art. Attention is directed to the occurrence of umbilical tetanus, diarrhea and malnutrition. From even a brief stay in a country such as Haiti one comes to appreciate that a public health program in an underdeveloped nation is not strictly a medical undertaking but must be seen in its social and economic contexts.     

关于国际遗传学联合会(I.G.F.)介绍

据国际遗传学联合会章程介绍,I.G.F.的宗旨是:促进全世界遗传学家之间的了解、合作和友谊;筹划和资助国际和地区性遗传学会议以及专题讨论会;与其它有关的国际组织保持联系并促进遗传学研究领域内的国际合作;互通情报;组织著名遗传家的访问等,借以促进遗传学的发展。     

Signalling among relatives. I. Is costly signalling too costly?

Zahavi''s handicap principle,originally proposed as an explanation for sexual selection ofelaborate male traits, suggests that a sufficient cost to dishonest signals can outweigh the rewards of deception and allow individuals to communicate honestly. Maynard Smith (1991) and Johnstone and Grafen (1992) introduce the Sir Philip Sidney game in order to extend the handicap principle to interactions among related individuals, and to demonstrate that stable costly signalling systems can exist among relatives.In this paper we demonstrate that despite the benefits associated with honest information transfer, the costs incurred in a stable costly signalling system may leave all participants worse off than they would be in a system with no signalling at all. In both the discrete and continuous forms of the Sir Philip Sidney game, there exist conditions under which costly signalling among relatives, while stable, is so costly that it is disadvantageous compared with no signalling at all. We determine the factors which dictate signal cost and signal benefit in a generalized version of this game, and explain how signal cost can exceed signal value. Such results raise concerns about theevolutionary pathways which could have led to the existence of signalling equilibria in nature. The paper stresses the importance of comparing signalling equilibria with other possible strategies, beforedrawing conclusions regarding the optimality of signalling.     

中国齿裂菌属研究I.

齿裂菌属(Coccomyces)二新种,生于映山红(Rhododendron simsii)上的卷丝齿裂菌(C.circinatus)和生于乌榄(Canarium     

Chromoplastenstudien I. Der amöboide Chromoplastentyp

Zusammenfassung Es wird der amöboide Chromoplastentyp anhand der Beispiele vonLilium tigrinum undTagetes patula beschrieben. Dieser Typ zeichnet sich durch Flexibilität und Amöboidie, sowie durch das Vorkommen unterschiedlich vieler und unterschiedlich großer, carotinoidhaltiger Globuli aus. Morphologische Varietäten des Grundtyps bewegen sich zwischen den beiden Extremen, der stark amöboid beweglichen, filamentösen Form beiLilium und der ovalen bis runden, schwach amöboiden beiTagetes.Die amöboiden polyglobulären Chromoplasten kommen entweder als primär amöboide Formen auf die Epidermis beschränkt vor und können sich aus farblosen (Lilium, Convallaria) oder ergrünten Proplastiden (Tagetes) entwickeln. Sekundär amöboide Chromoplasten entstehen im Mesophyll der Perigonblätter vonLilium tigrinum durch Umwandlung von Chloroplasten.In den geöffneten Blütenständen vonTagetes undCalendula zeigen die Chromoplasten im Gegensatz zu den übrigen Organellen Degenerationserscheinungen (Vacuolenbildung, Freiwerden der Globuli). Die carotinoidhaltigen Globuli gelangen ins Cytoplasma und von dort in den Zellsaft.Der Chromoplastentyp und seine Entstehung, sowie die Frage der Rückverwandlung von der somatischen in die embryonale Plastidenphase werden diskutiert, ebenso das Auftreten der Globuli in den Chromoplasten und ihr Freiwerden. Die Globuli werden als Population unterschiedlicher Genese und wahrscheinlich auch unterschiedlichen Pigmentgehaltes aufgefaßt.Mit 4 Textabbildungen